Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Saturday Nov 1, 1806

Warsaw
A courier brought the first details of the disaster of Jena / Auerstead. After a change of mounts the rider headed toward Ostrolenka, carrying a dispatch for General Bennigsen. Neither Bennigsen nor anyone in Russia yet know of the defeat of the Prussian Army at the hands of the Grande Armee.

(from 1806 The Autumn of no Return )

Ray,
Maybe you should make one!

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The Polish war should have followed long ago Murat's run across Germany too the battle of Friedland

Now that the greatest way to get it! put me on the list

Monday November 3 1806

Schwerin - Blucher crossed the Stor River and entered quarters, but not without mishap. He resolved to march on Gadebusch by night and not attempt the move toward the bridge under construction over the Elbe

Crivitz - Bernadette finally captured the low lying Crivitz and pushed his Cavalry through the town. as they emerged into the countryside beyond the Prussians suddenly attacked and threw them back capturing many including a colonel and Bernadotte's Aide de Camp. On the Prussian left however General von Wobeser and the Usedom hussar regiment were late in crossing the Stor River and Bernadotte drove them into the east bank of the Schweriner- See. Another battalion of Prussians was captured as it travelled alone from its distant cantonment toward the Stor. Bernadotte camped on the souther tip of the Schweriner - See. Soult finally reached Crivitz at the end of the day where Sahuguet's exhausted dragoons joined them.

[From 1806 The Autum of No Return ]

Pre-ordering sounds like a good idea to me! I will even pay up front before its complete if that's what it would take. The likewise for the Peninsular War!

Wellington was a great general but a bad strategist I tell you! Without the guerilla war Wellington would have been in trouble more often. Napoleon was a great strategist served by overconfident unadapting generals backed up by a very mediocre 'king'.

Lannes or Davout would have whipped his arse!

I wish we could have convinced Bill to do it. He has much of everything needed form his other work...

On the good side I know of two titles in pipeline waiting on artwork.

Did I type that out loud?

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Field Marshal Sir Edward Blackburn, 1st Duke of Aberdeen K.G.
85th (Buck's Light Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
16th British Brigade
7th Division
III (Peninsular) Corps
2nd Battalion, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards

Gents, indeed, I see several playtesters posting here and we are all sworn to secrecy, so regarding 1807 ( I too would really like this-the Russians gave Nappy all he could handle!) or the much rumored (confirmed to be in development years ago) Peninsula game or anything else in the period, we all should tread carefully.

It is not necessarily economics but rather (a) is there a designer working on it?, (b) how fast are they moving?, and (c) where is a nearly completed project in Tiller's Queue? The designer makes the maps and scenarios but normally does not do the art or make the actual stand alone program (these games are not made as modules but as unique games). So if there is a designer on it already, then it would be somewhere in this process, which can take 10 months (I think Bill did 1814 in less then a year and some of the panzer campaigns have been done quickly) to 5+ years, depending on the designer and then if 4 other designers have games almost done too then they need to wait in line for finishing.

But I too hope we see one before we are all too old to see the monitor to play!

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It would be nice. IMHO opinion it was one of the closest campaigns of the period--many battles could have gone either way and even the smaller and medium sized ones are interesting. Lots to work with for the campaign engine too. And we already have snow tiles from 1814!

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Is he ever going to do another M&P game? I can't imagine there are enough devotees of the period in a minor niche like hex wargaming to make it financially worthwhile.